Things Fall Apart

In Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe throws us into a setting of pre colonial Nigeria. The book is about the many cultural clashes and how Okonkwo deals with western europeans coming to Nigeria and spreading their religion to their village. To Okonkwo dealing with his fatal flaw of being overly masculine, as his religion views women as inferior to men and he views femininity as weakness. Overall this novel has deeper meaning to it and not your ordinary Hero’s journey.
White missionaries start to show up to the village, Mr. Brown who was the lead missionary brought forth Christianity to the village and at first joining the religion was not mandatory they became more and more persistent. They finally became the main religion in the village and

“After singing the Interpreter spoke about the son of god whose name was jesu kristi, Okonkwo, who only stayed in hope that it might come to chasing or whipping men out of the village, now said “You said out of your own mouth that their is only one god, now you talk about his son. He must have a wife.” The crowd agreed” (Achebe 62). This shows that the have some disbeliefs and different opinions but after Okonkwo exile of 7 years he comes back to find the they run the government and find the village coinciding with Christianity even though they repelled it in the

“ Unoka, for that was his father's name, had died 10 years ago. In his day he was lazy and improvident and quite incapable of thinking about tomorrow. If any money came his way, and seldom did, he immediately bought gourds of palm-wine, and invited over his neighbors and made merry. He always said that when he saw a dead mans mouth he saw folly in not eating what one had in one's lifetime. Unoka was, of course, a debtor, he owed every neighbor some money, from a few cowries a substantial amount.” (Achebe 3). This hatred toward his father continued on to his son Nwoye. “Okonkwo’s first son, Nwoye, was only twelve years old then but was already causing his father much anxiety for his incipient laziness. At any rate that's how it looked to his father, and he sought to correct it by constant nagging and beating.” Okonkwo feared being to feminine he hated nwoye for it as he saw him as weak and he even resented his favorite child ezinma because she was a women. From the beginning he wanted to prove that he was more power and far superior to his own father. He succeeded in doing so in the other culture that they had established in Umuofia. So, when Christianity took over in his village. His ideology are what ultimately made him take his own life. As he lost his fuel to run